<div class="doc-item" id="doc-887"><h2 class="doc-item-name">future<span class="namespace">(clojure.core)</span></h2><p class="macro">Macro</p><ul class="var-arglists"><li>(<span class="var-name">future</span> &amp; body)</li></ul><div class="var-docstring"><p>Takes a body of expressions and yields a future object that will
  invoke the body in another thread, and will cache the result and
  return it on all subsequent calls to deref/@. If the computation has
  not yet finished, calls to deref/@ will block.</p></div><div class="var-source"><pre>; clojure/core.clj:4036
(defmacro future
  [&amp; body] `(future-call (fn [] ~@body)))</pre></div><div class="license"><p>Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.</p><p>The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License 1.0</a>, which can be found in the file
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